Posts tagged Textile Trends
Anticipating Proposte Fair 2024

The Proposte Fair is a highly anticipated trade show for high-end home furnishings textile manufacturers and mills. The event unites top mills, exquisite fabrics, and talented individuals, with the beautiful Lake Como as a backdrop. Read on for strategies I’ve learned after years of attending Proposte 2024!

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Anticipating Proposte Fair 2023: Proposte Turns 30

For three decades, the Proposte Fair has been a highly anticipated trade show for high-end home furnishings textile manufacturers and mills. The event brings together top mills, exquisite fabrics, and talented individuals, with beautiful Lake Como as a backdrop. Through my multiple visits, I have refined my strategies, and I hope they are useful to others attending the fair.

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Future Fabric Trends: Proposte Fair 2021

Since 1993, Proposte Fair has been an indispensable trade show for the high-end, home furnishings textile industry. By now, I have lost count of how many times I have walked the halls of Proposte looking for the perfect textile for this collection or that project. I first visited early on in my career when I worked at Schumacher, and I’ve never stopped feeling like a kid in a candy store.

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Botanical Textiles with Kristin Riccio Design

San Francisco-based interior designer Kristin Riccio recently tapped me for some input on the best newly-introduced botanically-inspired designs for rugs, home-textiles and wallcoverings. Having visited Paris Deco Off and Maison et Objet before going into shelter-in-place (and starting my own quarantine garden!), I came armed with lots of botanical inspiration.

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